Being Reasonable: a manifesto for improving the inclusion of disabled people in SIGCHI conferences

Kirkham, Reuben, Vines, John and Olivier, Patrick (2015) Being Reasonable: a manifesto for improving the inclusion of disabled people in SIGCHI conferences. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '15. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 601-612. ISBN 9781450331463

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Abstract

Participation levels of people with disabilities in the SIGCHI community reflect a general inadequacy in how they are supported, and their interests promoted, within the ACM, the wider computing industry and academia itself. In response, we propose a manifesto for overhauling existing SIGCHI practices to increase the opportunities for including a wide range of disabled people in our research community through dissemination venues such as CHI. We set out the moral case for change, before providing a summary of UK disability discrimination law which we use identify sources of direct and indirect discrimination. Our goal has been to go beyond just accessibility: instead we emphasize disability inclusion in a much broader sense, and articulate a range of steps that can be conducted in order to meet this.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	G900 Others in Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2018 15:20
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 23:15
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/33128

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